Op-ed: If you 'own the news' you have political power and more. Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch is sometimes described as a man who 'owns the news' but there are political foot-soldiers working in various posts who could be viewed as far from independent.

Allegations of right-wing UK political bias at the BBC are refuted by the organisation. The Beeb has been accused of left-wing bias previously; remember Nigel Farage accusing the Beeb of similar during the pre GE 2015 televised election debates but who could accuse them of that now.

Since Jeremy Corbyn was appointed leader of the official Commons' opposition, the Labour Party, on September 12, 2015 BBC1 and right-wing publications such as the Telegraph have gone into bias overdrive.

Story after story about probable and possible future directions of the Labour party continue and undermine the party and its leader.

Mr Corbyn is headlines whether there is real news or not and usually whatever the story it is spun negatively.

In some cases the 'gossip', as it is not really news, utilises politicians from the Labour party; this is a combination of Labour MPs that remain miffed because their leader nomination did not win in September but there is also a fair amount of words taken out of context.

BBC1s question time was under fire recently for its obvious bias in selecting its weekly panel. That appears to have been the norm though since 2010 when the Conservatives and Lib Dems were allowed a panel member each even though they were working as one party in coalition.

The chair of BBCQT David Dimbleby has his toffs Bullingdon Club membership in common with Cameron, Osborne et al.

But dig a little and you find BBC chair Rona Fairhead and partner are good pals with Chancellor Osborne and his significant other.

As the government put financial pressure on the BBC which will lead to service and perhaps channel cuts it appears good old 'Aunty' is responding with biased news.

James Harding denies BBC bias of any political colour and says all political parties have applied financial pressure on the Beeb at some time or another.

If you believe Harding though look the image above of James Harding, the BBCs £340,000 director of news, and consider his pedigree.

Opinion: BBC news 6pm Sunday and Jeremy Corbyn is the main headline news after appearing on the Andrew Marr show earlier in the day.

Forget other main news the Beeb's news running order was Mr Corbyn, the Iran nuclear deal, the US freed hostages, a UK murder, conservation zones in British seas and a South American volcano erupting with perhaps another story but no mention of the expected hundreds of job losses at Tata steel announced earlier today or the 400 Syrians kidnapped by Daesh with many feared executed.

The Corbyn news related to his words on Labour's expected review into Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent; a review which will decide whether Labour Party policy will favour renewal, amendments or scrapping Trident.

But perhaps Mr Corbyn warranted BBC News' headlines after he said he thought striking in sympathy of other strikers was OK.

There will be some in Labour who will hold their hands up in horror at that view but they should remember it was Tory Margaret Thatcher that banned such action taking place more than 20 years ago.

Scaremongering followed Corbyn's outing on Marr yet the next general election is still more than four years away and the new Labour leadership and shadow cabinet are still settling into roles.

There is a long way to go.

Union bosses involved in Trident want to maintain the status quo to keep jobs but if Trident is not fit for purpose it could be a costly white elephant.

Mr Corbyn has been headline news almost daily since he became party leader in September 2015 unlike new Liberal Democrat party leader Tim Farron who is treat like the invisible man.

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